Nuuk Nordic Culture Festival 2021 became a breathing space and a bearing towards brighter times. Artists and actors of all shapes and colors visited Nuuk at the end of October.<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Approx. 2500 guests over 4 days. 200 artists and actors from around the world who were to exhibit and entertain in 15 venues.<\/p>\n For Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq’s culture department, which had the management up to the last festival, there is no doubt that it was a success.<\/p>\n From 28 to 31 October, Nuuk was a jumble of people and activities. At the library you could experience exciting lectures by authors, and in Katuaq cool concerts were held every night.<\/p>\n In Nuuk Art Museum, Jessie Kleemann and Jeanette Ehlers had a joint exhibition, with works by Pia Arke.<\/p>\n And in NUiF, free concerts were held for the city’s children and young people, so that they could participate in the big festival in a safe environment.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t The theme for this year’s Culture Festival was ‘Angalaneq’, ‘to travel’. For the past year and a half, Greenland had been subject to the Corona’s iron grip, but we could once again look towards brighter times.<\/p>\n It was time to travel again. Not just physically, from country to country, but also mentally.<\/p>\n The many months where we all took care not to get too close to each other, where the culture was set aside for the good of the people, also cost us the entertainment.<\/p>\n And with Nuuk Nordic Culture Festival, many could once again live up to, and take the mental journey out of the virus’ chains, into the abstract freedom that exists across cultures, and which even the pandemic cannot kill.<\/p>\n The festival started out with a bang of a parade. Odinteatret entertained with costumes and music all the way from Forsamlingshuset to Nuuk Center. At Katuaq the procession stopped, and for live music the theme \u2018Angalaneq\u2019 was hung up and lit.<\/p>\n After this, the large crowd found their way to Nuuk Center, where the Mayor and Naalakkersuisoq for Culture gave opening speeches.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Nuuk Nordic Culture Festival is the only one of its kind in Greenland, and one of quite a few in the entire Nordic community. The festival brings together entertainment and activities from not just one art, but from many different forms of expression within music, visual arts, research, literature and theater.<\/p>\n The artists are becoming more and more creative with the way they express themselves and how they combine different media, and the festival becomes a breathing space for the population, where they can seek all kinds of entertainment just to their own taste.<\/p>\n The festival is also a space where artists can share experience with each other. New networks and collaborations are created, and at the end of the festival, the artists and actors, the locals as well as the guests, have gained new knowledge and inspiration to create even more new and challenging art.<\/p>\n One of the events that especially gathered people from all sides was the talks that took place in GUX’s old gymnasium. Every day, the audience could experience artists and actors discussing and reflecting on the Nuuk Nordic Culture Festival<\/a>, and what the event means for the cultural work in Greenland and the Nordic countries<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t In addition to the joy of the Culture Festival being held once again successfully, we also had the pleasure of finally visiting our board.<\/p>\n NAPA’s Board of Directors, appointed in 2020, had not previously had the opportunity to meet physically earlier. Therefore, Nuuk Nordic Culture Festival was an obvious time to gather the five members, all from different countries in the Nordic community.<\/p>\nANGALANEQ in flames<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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